10:42 AM,
Mar. 5, 2014

Written by

Billy Kempfer
| Guest columnist

In his recent guest column in FLORIDA TODAY, "Fixing springs takes political will," attorney David Guest ignores significant progress by Florida's $108 billion agriculture industry to conserve water and reduce its impact on the environment.

Every segment of agriculture - forestry, cattle, sod, row crop and other smaller segments - has its own best management practices.

And Kempfer Cattle Co. and Deer Park Ranch is one of 3,000 similar agriculture producers across Florida that applies best management practices. Collectively, we save more than 25 billion gallons of water a year through ...